Tidal Transit Equipping Its CTVs with Marfle Diagnostics

Tidal Transit’s crew transfer vessels (CTVs) Eden Rose and Tia Elizabeth are the first two in the company’s fleet to be fitted with Marfle data collectors, after the UK CTV operator signed an agreement with the marine fleet productivity specialists Marfle.

Tia Elizabeth is currently on long term charter at the Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm off the coast of Wales and Eden Rose is working for Siemens at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm.

The data collectors will gather information relating to a range of criteria including, i.a., fuel consumption, speed, as well as engine temperatures and pressures. The Marfle system will also provide important alerts about a wide range of malfunctions or operating parameters which have exceeded their normal limits.

The agreement with Marfle enables, OrbisEnergy tenant, Tidal Transit to further enhance the analysis of its vessel operational costs and the key performance indicators associated with voyages made by its fleet of offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels.

“I am expecting the information and analyses collected by the Marfle system to be beneficial in many ways”, said Tidal Transit Commercial Director, Leo Hambro. “The web based reports will undoubtedly be useful to our skippers, crews and vessel maintenance teams, and I am expecting our clients’ marine management teams to be very interested in the cost and efficiency analyses.”

“Eden Rose and Tia Elizabeth are from different generations of our vessel lineage, so we are particularly interested to monitor the effects of the on-going development of specific technologies on vessel performance,”Hambro added.

“There is an international demand to reduce the cost of producing energy from renewable sources, as was clearly shown by the strike prices awarded in the latest UK CfD auction round. When an offshore wind farm moves into its long term operations phase, vessel charters are one of the significant operational costs. I expect the Marfle system to provide data that is of use to our clients in managing vessel utilisation,”Leo Hambro concluded.

The Team

Katie Snell

Having worked within the property department for 9 years, I have had the pleasure of working within the majority of the Nwes sites in the Norfolk and Waveney area. For the last 2.5 years I have been based at OrbisEnergy and more recently as Senior Coordinator overlooking the renewable hub and team.

Devon Mills

Devon has joined the team at OrbisEnergy as an Administration Coordinator in November 2014 and more recently a Centre Coordinator in January 2016. Having previously worked within various customer service roles she is pleased to be able to apply her skills and knowledge to her position at OrbisEnergy.

She is keen to build a strong understanding within the Offshore Renewable industry, whilst being able to develop a good mind for business and sales.

Johnathan Reynolds

Johnathan is responsible for all aspects of business and supply chain development for the flagship innovation and incubation centre for offshore renewables in the east of England, OrbisEnergy.

Matthew Holden

Matt’s role is Technical Support Manager, his main duty is leading the European Clusters for Offshore Wind Servicing Project (ECOWindS, www.ecowinds.eu) on behalf of Nwes. In addition to ECOWindS Matt’s role is provide support for the property team and to carry out specific project work.

John Balch

John is Managing Director of Nautilus, Director of Nwes and Hub Director of OrbisEnergy and Beacon Innovation Centre. He is a mechanical engineer and has broad experience gained over 40 years in the international offshore industry.